Collaborative Research: Introducing the Principles and Processes of the Earth's Critical Zone to Teachers, Informal Educators and Academically At-Risk Youth

合作研究：向教师、非正式教育工作者和学业有风险的青少年介绍地球临界区的原理和过程

• 批准号: 1034925
• 负责人: Gary Coutu
• 金额: $ 3.34万
• 依托单位: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1034925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Introducing; Principles; Processes

The Stroud Water Research Center and West Chester University are building on research of the Christina Basin Critical Zone Observatory as a way to communicate Earth system science to teachers, informal educators and children of migrant agricultural workers in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Humans occupy a dynamic, ever-changing environment at the surface of the Earth called the Critical Zone. This zone, stretching from the base of the soil to the top of the vegetation, is where humans come into direct contact with, and have an impact on, Earth systems. Understanding the principles and processes that form this environment is vital to understanding the planet and human impacts on the environment. This project creates place-based educational experiences for participants that introduce them to both natural processes and human impacts that shape the environment within Earth's Critical Zone. By linking processes that act at the local scale to conditions that occur at the global scale, this project provides participants with a means to comprehend the integrated and complex nature of Earth system science. To accomplish this, the project develops, delivers and evaluates: 1) workshops/graduate courses for teachers and informal educators; and, 2) after-school and summer activities for children of local migrant agricultural workers.

斯特劳德水研究中心和西切斯特大学正在克里斯蒂娜盆地临界区天文台的研究基础上，作为向宾夕法尼亚州东南部的教师，非正式教育工作者和移民农业工人子女传达地球系统科学的一种方式。 人类在地球表面占据着一个动态的、不断变化的环境，称为临界区。这一地带从土壤底部延伸到植被顶部，是人类与地球系统直接接触并对其产生影响的地方。了解形成这种环境的原理和过程对于了解地球和人类对环境的影响至关重要。 该项目为参与者创造了基于地点的教育体验，向他们介绍了塑造地球临界区环境的自然过程和人类影响。 通过将在地方范围内起作用的过程与在全球范围内发生的条件联系起来，该项目为参与者提供了一种理解地球系统科学的综合性和复杂性的手段。为实现这一目标，该项目制定、提供和评价：（1）为教师和非正规教育工作者举办讲习班/研究生课程;（2）为当地移徙农业工人的子女举办课后和暑期活动。